Western Sectionals (Japan)

[gsk8]

Western Sectionals
第43回西日本選手権大会 第34回西日本ジュニア選手権大会
Nov. 2-5, 2017
Fukuoka, Japan

*Numbers from top placements advancing to National
Sr. men: 11 (plus 3 seeded skaters: Shoma, Mura and Keiji)
Sr. ladies: 15 (plus Mai and Satoko are both seeded skaters)
Jr. men: 13 (plus Mitsuki Sumoto is seeded skater)
Jr. ladies: 18 (again, Kaori, Yuna and Marin all turn seniors so no seeded skater for jr ladies)



*Entry list: http://www.jsfresults.com/National/2017-2018/fs_j/west/index.htm (in Japanese only)
** Pairs compete at Western Sectionals (based on the entry list, there's no pair from western sectional and no junior pair team from eastern sectional)

Result (in English, w/protocol): http://www.jsfresults.com/non_responsive_toppage.htm?figure_top.htm%2CNational/2017-2018/fs_e/west/index.htm

 

[annemn]

Oh, I would love to go to this! I'm right across the water in Busan, Korea and it's an easy ferry ride to Fukuoka.

Does anyone happen to know if it's possible to get tickets from overseas??

 

[cohkaix]

Does anyone happen to know if it's possible to get tickets from overseas??

Western sectionals DO sale tickets (but not Eastern sectionals). The sale has already started on Sept 26th. Tickets can be purchased from the following sites (in Japan):
http://http://eplus.jp/sys/T1U89P0101P006001P0050001P002238310P0030001P0006
http://http://ticket.pia.jp/pia/ticketInformation.do?eventCd=1744944&rlsCd=001&lotRlsCd=
http://http://l-tike.com/order/?gLcode=83066&gPfKey=20170907000000213077%2C20170907000000213076%2C20170907000000213075&gEntryMthd=01&gScheduleNo=1&gCarrierCd=08&gPfName=西日本フィギュアスケート選手権&gBaseVenueCd=80634

To purchase tickets from overseas, I'd probably check with JSF directly.

 

[annemn]

Western sectionals DO sale tickets (but not Eastern sectionals). The sale has already started on Sept 26th. Tickets can be purchased from the following sites (in Japan):
http://http://eplus.jp/sys/T1U89P0101P006001P0050001P002238310P0030001P0006
http://http://ticket.pia.jp/pia/ticketInformation.do?eventCd=1744944&rlsCd=001&lotRlsCd=
http://http://l-tike.com/order/?gLcode=83066&gPfKey=20170907000000213077%2C20170907000000213076%2C20170907000000213075&gEntryMthd=01&gScheduleNo=1&gCarrierCd=08&gPfName=西日本フィギュアスケート選手権&gBaseVenueCd=80634

To purchase tickets from overseas, I'd probably check with JSF directly.

Oh fantastic - thank you so much for the info!!!

 

[tsuyoboogie]

Since I translated Sr. and Jr. Men's SP results in English to tweet, I figured I'd post results here as well.

Sr. Men SP results: (Like Eastern Sectionals, there's at least a couple of Sr. Men competing here that I really like, who are not going to qualify for Nationals. )

1) Ryuju Hino (3Lz-3T, 3A, 3Lo) 75.68
2) Kazuki Tomono (4Sfall, 3F-3T, 3A) 72.10
3) Shu Nakamura (3Aso, 3Lz-3T, 3Fso) 68.00
4) Sota Yamamoto (3Tot-2T, 2A, 3S) 62.24
5) Junya Watanabe (3Lz-2T, 3T, 2A) 61.64
6) Taichi Honda (3Afall, 3F, 3T-3T) 60.88
7) Koshin Yamada (3T-3T, 3Lz, 2A) 60.47
8) Sei Kawahara (3Afall, 3Lo-3T, 3Lz) 58.84
9) Junsuke Tokikuni 56.44
10) Kento Suginaka 56.08
11) Keiichiro Sasahara 54.14
12) Naoki Oda 53.33
13) Takayuki Yamamoto 53.08
14) Kousuke Nakano 52.93
15) Kotaro Takeuchi 51.38
16) Rintaro Furuya 45.10
17) Shinichi Yamada 40.08

Jr. Men SP results:

1) Taichiro Yamakuma (3A, 3F-2T, 3Lz) 66.02
2) Sena Miyake (3A, 3F-3T, 3Lzfall) 63.18
3) Yuto Kishina (3A, 3Lo-2Tfall, 3Lz) 61.53
4) Mitsuki Sumoto (3Aso, 3Lz, 3F-1T) 60.38
5) Takeru Kataise (3F-2T, 3Lz, 2A) 57.94
6) Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda (2A, 3T-3T, 3Lz) 55.19
7) Tatsuya Tsuboi (3Lo-1Lo, 3Lz, 2A) 54.22
8) Kazuki Kushida 52.00
9) Keita Kuninaka 50.15
10) Haruya Sasaki 48.83
11) Keisuke Kadowaki 47.25
12) Nozomu Yoshioka 46.05
13) Kimichika Wada 43.25
14) Sumitada Moriguchi 42.93
15) Takumi Sugiyama 42.72
16) Ichigo Santo 42.51
17) Shun Kobayashi 42.08
18) Shunya Matsuoka 40.78
19) Takaya Tsujimura 40.72
20) Tatsuma Furuya 40.52
21) Yuuji Maekawa 40.12
22) Rei Suzuki 36.53
23) Tsutomu Matsui 35.11
24) Shun Nagaike 31.25
25) Genki Rikuno 22.48 (FNR)

 

[cohkaix]

The jr. ladies is still underway, with two more skaters to go. But Rika Kihira just skated, with the following content:

22.紀平梨花
3A3T 3A 3F(Tano) 3Lz2T(Tano) 2Lo (pop) 3Lz(Tano)-2T2Lo 3S
FS 131.92/Total 195.20

Both 3A were landed. Nice job!!

 

[champs]

The jr. ladies is still underway, with two more skaters to go. But Rika Kihira just skated, with the following content:

22.紀平梨花
3A3T 3A 3F(Tano) 3Lz2T(Tano) 2Lo (pop) 3Lz(Tano)-2T2Lo 3S
FS 131.92/Total 195.20

Both 3A were landed. Nice job!!

I have somewhat mixed feelings about this...might be just that I don't know the circumstances she's been in in terms of injuries and other condition related stuff but I wish she displayed this jump content at the two JGPs, because I'm afraid it's starting to look like Rika skates well with her 3As only in local and smaller/less prestigious international comps where she may feel far less pressure on herself. Midori's '92 and Mao's '10 & '14 Olympics still leave bitter tastes in me and I just hope Rika will not go down under pressure like her great predecessors when it matters.

 

[cohkaix]

I've updated the result page (in English, with protocol) in post #1. I will come back to add the list of skaters advancing to Japan National/ Jr. National

NB:
*Yes, Rika's both 3As were ractified
** So far the participants to Jr. National have been set. But the compete list to All Japan National will have to be on hold until Jr. National finishes (as top-placing juniors will be invited to National)